Graphic Designer
Job Posting for Graphic Designer at ddm marketing + communications
GRAPHIC DESIGNER - JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an energetic and confident designer that gets fired up about clean grids, professional layouts and finding efficient ways to update 100s of client deliverables. This creative/technical position demands a high level of attention to detail, data visualization, and exceptional communication and collaboration with internal resources, vendors, and clients. Communication will be key to maintaining highly responsive solutions and service levels across multiple projects occurring simultaneously.
Functionally, the position includes creating and updating effective creative deliverables in support of sales, communications and marketing activities for ddm clients. Working with minimal supervision, under rigid deadlines and intensive work volumes, this designer will need to deliver compelling design, and impeccable final execution of those designs in traditional production software with efficient workflow (i.e. Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, etc.).
Your Deliverables:
We are looking for an energetic and confident designer that gets fired up about clean grids, professional layouts and finding efficient ways to update 100s of client deliverables. This creative/technical position demands a high level of attention to detail, data visualization, and exceptional communication and collaboration with internal resources, vendors, and clients. Communication will be key to maintaining highly responsive solutions and service levels across multiple projects occurring simultaneously.
Functionally, the position includes creating and updating effective creative deliverables in support of sales, communications and marketing activities for ddm clients. Working with minimal supervision, under rigid deadlines and intensive work volumes, this designer will need to deliver compelling design, and impeccable final execution of those designs in traditional production software with efficient workflow (i.e. Creative Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, etc.).
Your Deliverables:
- Contribute to creative strategy
- Deliver creative concepting
- Creatively meet client marketing objectives
- Budget creative resources
- Manage creative vendors (print, video, photography, animation)
- Deliver amazing solutions on-time and on-budget
Specific Duties and Responsibilities to Support Your Role:
- Collaborate with team members to develop creative strategies to meet client marketing objectives
- Be comfortable working from start to finish on design projects, from high-level creative concepting to implementation of existing design standards
- Develop creative communications across all media
- Apply corporate brand standards across all media
- Manage vendors and outside resources to maintain brand consistency and quality deliverables
- Have experience with and possess a thorough understanding of print production
- Have experience estimating and budgeting creative time and resources
- Build strong, positive working relationships with ddm and client team members
- Maintain effective communication with ddm team leaders and other team members
Professional Skills Qualifications Needed for Consideration:
- BA degree a minimum of 4 years of agency experience in graphic design for advertising and/or marketing
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office (PowerPoint will be part of this role)
- Print and digital design experience with skills including literature, ads, large-scale trade show graphics and creative development of communications across all media
- Highly skilled at retouching and manipulating images in Photoshop
- Very strong with print, layout and infographics – corporate reports and brochures a major plus
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Ability to prioritize workload and manage a broad spectrum of tasks in a fast paced, deadline driven client team
DDM & EOS ENTREPRENEURIAL OPERATING SYSTEM
ddm is organized and gains traction through the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Viable candidates would be required to embrace this system and as a team member help fully implement its practice.
Some specifics from EOS that guide expectations of all team members:
Know Our Passion: Amaze Our Clients
Understand Our Niche: Delivering extraordinary service and amazing solutions to highly complex or regulated industries.
Exhibit Our Core Values:
- Serve our clients tenaciously.
- Respect the team.
- Be curious – first ask why then tackle how.
- Run through the wall attitude.
- Deliver excellence, not excuses.
- Play up a level.
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